The HTML::Clean module encapsulates a number of common techniques for minimizing the size of HTML files. You can typically save between 10% and 50% of the size of a HTML file using these methods. It provides the following features:

meta Takes a space separated list of meta tags to remove,
default "GENERATOR FORMATTER"
emptytags Takes a space separated list of tags to remove when there is no
content between the start and end tag, like this: <b></b>.
The default is 'b i font center'